Where's the money, Lebowski?

Let's talk about work.

There's my personal job as an artist, which is going very well. It will need a lot of work in a while, to upload the results. I'm between computers, so it's slowed down a bit. But the real world work is going great, with new places of venue. However, I haven't applied to a show (with no computer) in a while.

Then there's the job I do fixing other people's art. The "rent paying job". Let's talk about the economy and how everyone's just trying to pay their rent, and save their art till they have the money. Art is a luxury, let's not kid ourselves. But because the job is set in stone, they don't have to lay me off, they just shuffle me down to alphabetizing stickers and organizing colored card stock. Which, however, is going up because unemployed people can spend a little money to stay home and scrapbook. While fine arts is going down, craft is going up. Take note.

Finally, there's the job that will someday maybe get me a better job, and calms the spirit, and that is the plant business. Which is doing pretty dang well. Because who the hell doesn't want a cute little green thing that will love them and grow for them even when the stock market hates them and the banks are denying them loans and taking their housing? And who wouldn't want a beautiful little bonsai to stay home and manage instead of that trip to Vegas that had to be canceled to pay the medical bill the insurance didn't pick up on this time? Seriously, the plant business is making me a little sad lately.